Jonathan Pepin

Prepare Rails and local environment First, let's install postgres. On Mac, brew install postgres should do the trick. On other systems, looks at the Postgres official install page (https://www.postgresql.org/download/). Then, switch the Rails app to using Postgres. In your Gemfile,...

What is the problem 1. Local and Prod work differently. Once you have a Rails app working locally, a lot of setup has to be done to get the app in production 2. PaaS like Heroku automate everything for...

Although this post will use Flask for examples, this applies pretty much to any environment. ## Why do you need a config? ### Configs allow you to keep things DRY One of the most known concepts in software engineering is...

Raw Kindle notes for Ogilvy On Advertising by David Ogilvy (http://a.co/geSdYmX) I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition,...

travel is expensive, need money * depressed when going back home bc no more money * shovelling allows to cope with depression -> 12 startups in 12 months * nomad list was a shared spreadsheet by mistake, now big...

The new ES6 module system offers a built in export system coming with a better syntax than previously used CommonJS and AMD modules. You can now export modules with the following syntax: javascript class Foo {} export default Foo;...

It's been said that there are only two hard things in computer science; Cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-1 errors. Today I'd like to talk about naming things, because it's an issue that is often discussed and regularly comes back...

Raw Kindle notes for Rework Jason Fried () We have something new to say about building, running, and growing (or not growing) a business. The moment the first hunter-gatherer set foot on an Australian beach was the moment that Homo sapiens...

Raw Kindle notes for The Man Who Tapped The Secrets Of The Universe by Glenn Clark (http://a.co/aV6j5Sp) I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self bestowed. Every successful man I ever have known, and I have known a...